Connor's 8th Birthday

I tried to convince Connor that he didn't need a party this year but he disagreed.

When he suggested a Lego party, I agreed, because I do love a fun theme for a birthday party and this one sounded pretty darn easy.

I did tell him he needed to limit the number of friends so this year's party was smaller than usual, only a few friends from church and some boys from our cul-de-sac.

Thanks to Pinterest, I found this cute idea for invitations which was pretty easy with my Silhouette to cut out the circles for me:

They started out with one large box of Lego but it didn't take long for the mess making to begin!

Refreshments were pretty easy - a Lego cake, some Lego cookies and Connor designed some Lego chip bowls ahead of time.

 We played a few Lego themed games, including Who Can Build the Highest Tower in One Minute, and Lego Drop, where they stood at the railing above the stairs and dropped Lego bricks into buckets down below.  They got different points depending on which bucket their brick landed in.  The focus was intense, they were really into it!

 The next day, we had family over for a birthday dinner.  It turns out Connor's not much of a cake fan so I baked him a strawberry pie instead.

Oh, no, look at all those girlfriends! 

  He and Maira had fun helping Grandma build his new Lego game after supper.

He came into our family on a warm sunny June morning 8 years ago and it was one of the happiest days of my life.  Love you Connor!

More June Fun

Shae likes to draw in the backyard.

 Are you looking at me??

 Hey, you're taking pictures of me!!

 My dad is so weird.

Hamming it Up

Hudson loves to ham it up for the camera...

Warm Weather is Here!

Weekend in Victoria

Jess has spent almost as much time in Victoria these past few months as he has in Edmonton so we decided that one of these times, I would go with him as a little getaway for the two of us.  (Thanks Mom for watching the kids!)

We stayed in a great hotel in downtown Victoria, at at yummy restaurants, did a little shopping and exploring and had a lovely time. 

The houses are beautiful and there are SO MANY flowers!  Everywhere, there are these giant tropical looking blooms - it looks like it may be a requirement to be into gardening in order to own a home in Victoria.

I really love being by the ocean, I really really love it.  If I could pick anywhere in the world to live, it would definitely be right beside the ocean. We visited a few beaches (though it was WAY to cold to even think about going in) but I was happy as could be reading and knitting in the driftwood, a few feet from the surf.  Awesome way to spend a morning.

 I also enjoyed visiting a yarn shop while we were there - if we'd had more time, I would have tried to visit all of them but Jess was understandably only willing to spend so much of our time shopping for yarn. 

We rented bikes for the day and saw a lot of downtown Victoria that way, which was absolutely perfect.  We mostly just biked around and stopped when we saw something interesting.

We had delicious fish n' chips on Fisherman's Wharf (very touristy but the fish was as fresh as could be - and as expensive as could be!)

There are seals at Fisherman's Wharf who are so tame, they wait around by the docks waiting for people to feed them.

We had a great time, Victoria is as beautiful as I expected, I can't wait to go back!